A former supervisor for a federal agency entangled in an ethics and sex scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to report a hunting trip paid for by an oil industry contractor.
Prosecutors said Donald Howard, 59, of Destrehan, La., accepted the trip from an unidentified contractor while working for the Minerals Management Service.
The agency regulates oil [...]
Jurors watched as an officer marked points that matched testimony from several eyewitnesses. Prosecutors requested the trip to give the men and women a better idea of what the crime scene looked like. One longtime Chattanooga defense attorney called the rare move a good one.
“It doesn’t happen very often and there are certain cases where [...]
A TRIP to Eden by several men accused of terrorism involved fishing, barbecues and mud bogging, and there was no talk of either religion or politics, the Supreme Court heard yesterday.
Prosecutors had earlier alleged the trip was designed for bonding or team building among some of the 12 Muslim men charged with terror offences.
The men [...]
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. legislators during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the [...]
A Moscow court has ordered a U.S. pastor to remain in detention for two months while prosecutors investigate him on suspicion of smuggling ammunition into the country, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said Sunday.
Phillip Miles, a pastor of the Christ Community Church in Conway, South Carolina, was detained at Sheremetyevo Airport on Feb. 3, days after [...]
Generals Run a Kilometer
Generals and officers in the Defense Ministry’s central staff are undergoing physical-fitness examinations for the first time in years, Interfax reported Friday.
The officials are being tested on short- and long-distance running, speed swimming and pistol practice, a Defense Ministry source told Interfax.
Physical fitness norms for staff aged 45 to 50 require that [...]
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - Aruban prosecutors said Thursday that authorities are investigating new information in the Natalee Holloway case provided by a Dutch crime reporter.Information from reporter Peter R. de Vries “may help considerably” in resolving what happened to the American, who vanished during a May 2005 school vacation to the Dutch Caribbean island, the prosecutor’s [...]
Tri Kita Case Goes to Court
A court in the Moscow region town of Narofominsk has sent the high-profile case against Sergei Zuyev, owner of the Tri Kita furniture store, to a court in St. Petersburg, a court official said Tuesday.
At a closed hearing Tuesday, the court ruled that the case should be heard where Zuyev’s [...]
PARIS — A junior trader blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at French bank Societe Generale has handed himself into the police and is cooperating with their investigation, a prosecution official said on Saturday.
Jerome Kerviel, 31, turned up at the headquarters of the finance police in southeast Paris during the afternoon and is likely [...]
